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Reform human rights? Looks like it was just talk

February 6^th 2012:  After human rights judges ruled against his deportation, it is announced that Abu Qatada is “to be released within days”.

August 21^st 2007: David Cameron on the Human Rights Act;  "It has to go.  Abolish the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights, which sets out rights and responsibilities. ..... It is a glaring example of what is going wrong in our country.”

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Is it really Clegg and co stopping us from sorting this mess out?  I doubt it. 

Like so much else about the blunted radicalism of this administration, the Coalition arithmetic in the Commons is cited as the excuse for failing to go far enough.  It is seldom the real reason.

In too many policy areas, we are more or less carrying on with what the previous adminstration did not because of Clegg and co, but because we seem only too happy to t ag along with what Sir  Humphrey says we should do.  

There is, to be blunt, insufficient  verve, determination and strategic thinking to drive through real change with what happened under Blair-Brown.

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